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It's great that someone is trying to preserve these operating systems. However the choice of limiting it to 1 user per OS at a time makes the museum/website unu
by treesknees 3y ago
It's great that someone is trying to preserve these operating systems. However the choice of limiting it to 1 user per OS at a time makes the museum/website unusable. I tried several times over the span of 20 minutes and couldn't get into a single VM.
While it doesn't cover everything, there is no shortage of browser-based emulators that can run most of the software listed.
Windows 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1 https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/ https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/
Windows 95: https://archive.org/details/win95_in_dosbox https://archive.org/details/win95_in_dosbox
Windows 98 http://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows98 http://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows98
Windows 2000 https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=win2k.cfg&mem=192&graphic=1&w=1024&h=768 https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=win2k.cfg&mem=192&gr...
Windows NT 4.0 https://pixelsuft.github.io/onwin/emulator.html?hda=winnt&cdb=none&seavgabios=true&winnt=yes&autostart=yes https://pixelsuft.github.io/onwin/emulator.html?hda=winnt&cd...
Some of the more esoteric OSes, or the ones which actually need a little bit of horse power to run like Vista, you can easily download from archive.org and run locally.
- elijahrdev 3y agoWe actually run a site pretty similar to this in concept, we've got 9 VMs total and you can take 20 second turns controlling them with other users. There's chat, and if someone breaks it, you can start a vote to reset. https://computernewb.com/collab-vm/ https://computernewb.com/collab-vm/
- Minocula 3y agoI first became aware of Hacker News thanks to this project. Great project. There is certainly room for improvement, but it works and is fun!